Thursday, 10 January 2013
Kabul, Jan 10 : How should we measure success
in Afghanistan? It's a crucial question, but there isn't much agreement on an
answer.
In mid-January, this newspaper ran a story on the latest National...
How Iran controls Afghanistan
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Kabul, Jan 10 : Afghanistan has
suffered from foreign meddling since its inception. But while Pakistan’s role
has been widely discussed -- most Afghans will point to concrete examples --
Iran’s involvement...
A Taliban ‘rope-a-dope’ strategy?
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Kabul, Jan 10 : The on-again,
off-again effort by the Obama administration to begin preliminary peace talks
with the Taliban is still struggling to get off the ground.
The first
move focuses on a...
Playboy Hugh Hefner marries his 'runaway bride'
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Los Angeles, Jan 10 : Hugh Hefner's celebrating the new year as a married man once
again.
The 86-year-old Playboy magazine founder exchanged vows with his
"runaway bride," Crystal Harris, at a private...
New York County denies request for names of gun permit holders
Thursday, 10 January 2013
New York,
Jan 10 : Authorities in a suburban county north of New York City said
they will refuse to release names of local gun permit holders to a newspaper
that has been publishing the identities...
One of 9 deceased victims of Oregon bus crash identified so far
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Portland,
Jan 10 : Oregon authorities said they have managed to positively
identify one of nine people killed after a charter bus skidded off an icy
mountain highway and crashed down an embankment.
Identification...
California newspaper defies trend to shrink costs
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Santa Ana, Jan 10 : New and expanded sections to cover business, automobiles and food. A
nearly five-fold increase in community news pages and more investigative
reporting. Even daily color comics.
It...
Ten states raise minimum wage, rates up 10 to 35 cents/hour
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Phoenix, Jan
10 : Ten states kicked off the new year with a minimum wage rise of
between 10 and 35 cents, modestly boosting the incomes of nearly 1 million
low-paid workers.
The rises went into effect...
Woman stumbles, falls on NYC subway tracks, dies
Thursday, 10 January 2013
New York, Jan 10 : New York City police say a young woman stumbling around on a
Manhattan subway platform not far from Times Square fell onto the tracks and was
killed by a train.
The accident...
Wall Street ends 2012 riding high on "cliff" deal optimism
Thursday, 10 January 2013
New York, Jan
10 : U.S. stocks closed out 2012 with their strongest day in more than
a month, putting the S&P 500 up 13.4 percent for the year, as lawmakers in
Washington closed in on a resolution...
Insight: How Colombian drug traffickers used HSBC to launder money
Thursday, 10 January 2013
New
York, Jan 10 : When several Colombian men were indicted in January
2010 on money-laundering charges, the case in Brooklyn federal court drew little
attention.
It looked like a bust of another...
South Korea's Hyundai, Kia expect slowest sales growth in 10 years
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Seoul,
Jan 10 : South Korea's biggest automakers Hyundai Motor Co and
affiliate Kia Motors Corp are targeting a 4 percent increase in global sales
this year to a combined 7.41 million vehicles, their...
Analysis: Economy would dodge bullet for now under fiscal deal
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Washington, Jan 10 : A deal worked out by Senate leaders
to avoid the "fiscal cliff" was far from any "grand bargain" of deficit
reduction measures.
But if approved by the House of Representatives,...
ArcelorMittal to sell $1.1 billion stake in Canada iron ore unit to POSCO group
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Seoul, Jan 10 : ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest
steelmaker, will sell a $1.1 billion stake in a Canadian iron ore mine operator
to a consortium that includes South Korean steelmaker POSCO and Taiwan-listed...
Analysis: "Fiscal cliff" deal called a dud on deficit front
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Washington,
Jan 10 : In the controversy surrounding the "fiscal cliff" issue, it's
easy to forget that the origin of the entire debate was a professed desire to
reduce swollen federal deficits.
Whether...
From Uri to Pulwama, past probes miscarried
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Srinagar, Jan 10 :
Even as the occupant Jammu and Kashmir Government has ordered a magisterial
inquiry into the firing on civilians allegedly by forces in Pulwama district
last week, similar probes...
‘IHK food shortage growing severe’
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Srinagar, Jan 10 : With
agriculture in held Jammu and Kashmir witnessing “gradual slump”, the occupied
State is likely to face food insecurity in future if it does not take measures,
an official report...
They received bullets while taking brother to hospital
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Srinagar, Jan
10: The bullet pierced through 23-year-old Ashiq’s abdomen, hit his
cousin Showkat in the arm and then landed straight into his brother Jehangir’s
shoulder —the bullet is still there.
Jehangir...
More evidence that malaria drug could help combat cancer
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Islamabad,
Jan 10 : Scientists investigating the cancer-fighting properties of
artesunate -- a drug commonly used to treat malaria -- have found early evidence
that combining it with an existing cancer...
First drug to treat fragile x?
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Islamabad, Jan 10 : The first
drug to treat the underlying disorder instead of the symptoms of Fragile X, the
most common cause of inherited intellectual disability, shows some promise,
according to...
Proteins need chaperones: Newly discovered processes in production of proteins described
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Islamabad, Jan 10 : Young unmarried girls used to be
accompanied by chaperones at social events. Their task was to prevent their
charge from having undesirable romantic rendezvous with young boys.
The...
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